Home Remedies for Acne

Hi! Thanks for stopping by to read my article. I've a feeling however, that you may be a little disappointed. If you're looking for some mumbo-jumbo New Age info promising you a natural acne remedy, you are in the wrong place. Nor am I going to tell you how to get rid of pimple scars using only a piece of chewing gum and a stick of dynamite.

Instead, I'm going to give you good solid information about your best choice of an acne remedy and steer you in the right direction. Make an informed decision based on the facts about acne and what really works, and get the job done. Hey don't get me wrong – I eat. organic, my eggs are free range -- but when it comes to something this important for my personal appearance and health, I want real science.

Let's start with the science behind acne itself. The big problem here is that the base of everything else is the inability for sebum, which is the oil and liquid produced by your sebaceous glands to get out of a hair follicle to the surface of your skin. It really is just that simple -- and that complex.

What happens when the soil can get out is that the plugged follicle provides a prime breeding ground for the bacteria P. acnes. This bacteria is harmful to the inner walls of the follicle, and will cause the follicle to fill up with live and dead bacteria and dead cells from the inner wall of the follicle. Add nasty stale sebum to the next and you've got a skin volcano.

Okay fair enough. Since we know what's going on now, we should have some idea as to the direction any home remedies for acne need to take:

• They need to break down these accumulations of waste materials, dead cells and trapped semen.

• Our natural acne remedies will also need to help reduce the destruction of the cells around the follicles and the oil glands, to reduce the size of the mass should clogging occur.

• It would be nice if our acne home remedy also had some way to kill the P. acnes bacteria.

• Finally this magic cure could do is the biggie by reducing the amount of sebaceous oil produced in the first place.

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Now we have some idea of what our natural acne cure should look like, let's do a little research………

This is where I got hung up. I did some checking online and you can find all kinds of recommendations for foods to avoid, foods to eat, specific diets, cleansing regimens and even exercise routines that are supposed to help you get rid of your acne.

But I couldn't find any place where they gave specific reason why they are diet or regimen could accomplish the objectives we laid out above. Unless someone steers me in another direction, I'm going to have to come down on the side of science and common sense and move in the direction of a treatment that actually accomplishes our stated goals.

So what should our proposed acne remedies look like? Well, I'm not sure what they should look like but I know what they should have in them.

We know that we need to dissolve the plugs in our pores and follicles, to reduce the chance of infection and scarring. So what is out there that will dissolve our self generated garbage?

Resourcinal is a chemical that breaks down infectious materials. It can help dissolve our blackheads and whiteheads. The simple element sulfur will do the same thing, as will salicylic acid.

Okay so far so good -- but what about our main objective? How do we get rid of the P. acnes bacteria? Well as it turns out, the common chemical benzoyl peroxide not only kills P. acnes, but also tends to reduce the amount of oil produced by the sebaceous glands.

Is there anything that we can do to prevent the destruction of the cells in and around the follicles? After all a lot of the pus in our pimples is made up of these dead cells. Well as it turns out we're in luck here as well. The salicylic acid that helps break down our blackheads and whiteheads can also act as a protective agent for these cells.

And now here's the culmination of our investigation and a piece of very good news: we can stop looking for some hippie organic home remedies for curing acne. All of the materials listed above, that do specific things in a very well documented way to help us get rid of or at least control our acne are readily available in over-the-counter medications.

The best-selling medications in this category would be Clearasil, Proactiv and Acne Free. I recommend that you stop searching for a magic bullet and take the easy way out. Do a comparison of these products and pick the one that looks as if it most closely meets your needs